[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.7-rc2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pdlzip 1.7-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.7-rc2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.7-rc2.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
4e47f56a6dcc26c8a74e2854b490f47fd9106998  pdlzip-1.7-rc2.tar.lz
1fb45ddb3342dcd3002c385b6e4951b637221f87  pdlzip-1.7-rc2.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Pdlzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip. Pdlzip includes public domain 
(de)compression code from the LZMA SDK (Software Development Kit) 
written by Igor Pavlov.

Pdlzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by pdlzip are 
(hope)fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. The lzip file format is 
designed for data sharing and long-term archiving, taking into account 
both data integrity and decoder availability.

Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files. 
Lzma-alone is a very bad format; it is essentially a raw LZMA stream. If 
you keep any lzma-alone files, it is advisable to recompress them to 
lzip format.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/pdlzip.html


Changes in this version:

  * When decompressing, the file specified with the '--output' option 
is now deleted if the input is a terminal.

  * A configure warning happening on some shells when testing for gcc 
has been fixed.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.